Quantum of Solace

Today marks the 15th day that we're maid-less.   Hahaha itu pun ada   milestone   kan ? Well, this is not the first time. We've been in this situation before - about a year ago where we were left with no maid for almost one month. But the situation was different then. We were expecting for the replacement maid to come, but there were delays, hence the 'maidless period'.  But this time around, there is no replacement or even back up plan. We terminated the service and that was it. No plan at all. No preparation.  The circumstances that we are facing (which is too complicated to be explained here) has made us to the conclusion that getting a new maid is not an option, at least for now. How are we doing so far?  Well, quite okay if I can say so myself. Our  house is still in order:  NO piles of dirty dishes and clothes - T his is my proudest achievement as it proves that the amount of time and effort that I had spent in front of the kitchen sink and washing mac

Undoubtedly, our children’s firsts will always bring excitement to the parents. The first smile, first word, first step, first tooth and the list will go on and on. Nevertheless, whatever milestone, achievements or occasion, it will definitely make us, the parents to squeak with joy, brimming with pride and happiness. Aren't parenting make us more sentimental? So the last couple of weeks had been about Adeelia’s few firsts. First, it was her first school concert.  Adeelia just loves to perform. I suspected that she had watched Barney and Hi-5 a little too much that she might think that we are all living in a musical-where-everything can-turn-into-a-song world .. hehehe. Even though we had seen her voluntarily performing   ‘Let it Go’ (well sort of, the lyrics was quite a mouthful, right?)  during family gatherings,  on top of   her thousands of times rendering the song in the house and in the car,  attending her first school concert was still exciting as we got to see h